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Language Quotes by John Dewey

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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and…

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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

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Thought is impossible without words.

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The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends…

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Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature,…

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When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not…

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who…

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The importance of language in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of the common notion that knowledge may be passed directly…

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Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a…

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Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

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Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe…

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“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right…

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A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view…

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Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and…

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A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting…

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The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

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Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts…

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Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply…

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Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse…

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